“STRANGE CREATURES” — Fatwas on Women and Other Indicators of the Religious Mania, Ignorance and Neuro-Pathology of ‘not a few’ Unfortunate Muslims

A Christian acquaintance of mine forwarded these postings as evidence of the generic decline in Muslim faculties of reason and the rise of sociopathic pathology such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafism, ISIS and Wahhabism. Unfortunately, I can’t argue with him. Indeed, not a few Muslims have degenerated as predicted by Mohammad (pbh), most especially their political and religious leadership, as the following fatwas clearly demonstrate.

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With no centralized Islamic religious authority, pretty much any Muslim “scholar” can create a fatwa, a religious edict for modern life supposedly guided by the Koran or the (less authoritative) hadiths – stories from Muhammad’s life. In recent years, supply has far outstripped demand, and it’s getting laughable. Most fatwas are harmless and a little mundane, but lately, some Islamic jurists have gone straight crazy.

A report by a committee set up by Al Azhar, one of the oldest and most prestigious Islamic universities in Cairo, to study the fatwas issued by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis reveals how Islamists view women. The findings of the committee’s report were published in the Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm. In all, the committee studied 51 fatwas issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis during President Mohamed Morsi’s tenure.

According to the report, “the fatwas issued by both groups regard women as strange creatures who are created solely for sex. They considered the voices of women, their looks and presence outside the walls of their homes an ‘offense’. Some even went as far as to consider women as a whole offensive.”

“Al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders.” – fatwa from Iraq in 2007

Women who swim in the sea commit adultery AND should be punished,” – from India Today:

“When a woman goes swimming, as the word for sea is masculine, when “the water touches the woman’s private parts, she becomes an ‘adulteress’ and should be punished.”– “The misguided Fatwas of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis”, Al Masry Al Youm.

Another fatwa prohibited women from “eating certain vegetables or even touching cucumbers or bananas”, due to their phallic imagery which could lead women down the wrong path.

Another fatwa directed women to “turn off the air conditioners at home in the absence of their husbands as this could indicate to a neighbor that the woman is at home alone and any of them could commit adultery with her”.

Another fatwa orders that girls as young as 10-years-old be married “to prevent them from deviating from the right path”.

Another prohibited girls from going to school more than 25km away from their homes.

A strange one said that a couple’s marriage would be annulled if they had sex with no clothes on.

At the same time, some of these fatwas also sanctioned the use of women as human shields during violent demonstrations and protests.

The Gatestone Institute, in an earlier report, had said that some of the fatwas issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis during Morsi’s tenure advocated the destruction of the pyramids and sphinx, the scrapping of the Camp David Accord, killing anyone who protested against president Mohamed Morsi, forbidding Muslims from greeting Christians, forbidding Muslim cab drivers from transporting Christian priests, forbidding TV shows that mock or make light of Islamists; and forbidding women from marrying any men involved with the former Mubarak government.

Top 10 Bizarre or Ridiculous Fatwas

Grand Mufti Sheikh Ibn Baaz:

“The Sun Revolves Around the Earth.”

In a 2000 Fatwa titled “The Transmitted and Sensory Proofs of the Rotation of the Sun and Stillness of the Earth”, Saudi Arabian Grand Mufti Sheikh Ibn Baaz asserted that the earth was flat and disk-like and that the sun revolved around it. He had insisted that satellite images to the contrary were nothing but a Western conspiracy against the Islamic world.

Source: Al-Ahram Weekly Issue 477, 13-19 April, 2000.

Ayatollah Khomeini: “Kill for A Book None of Us Can Should Read!”

In 1988, publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses led Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa against Rushdie, with a huge bounty for his death. This triggered several attacks on the novel’s translators, publishers and booksellers, including the murder of Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi. Millions of Muslims around the world who had never read a single line of the book, and who had never even met Rushdie before, wanted him dead. Interesting fact, 24% of Iranians at the time couldn’t even read.

A University of Massachusetts study recently reported that girls who play sports have higher self esteem, and are less likely to enter (or remain in) abusive relationships. Could this fact have threatened the he-men at the Malaysia National Fatwa Council? Maybe. Perhaps that’s why Kuala Lumpur had a near riot on their hands when the Sisters in Islam marched against a Malaysian fatwa banning tomboys, which branded any girls who act un-ladylike as violating Islamic tenets. Fortunately, the as-yet undefined punishment for Malaysian girls in t-shirts and jeans hasn’t been incorporated into Sharia law yet.

That’s right, somebody put on hit on Mickey Mouse. Calling Mickey “one of Satan’s soldiers,” Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid decreed that household mice and their cartoon cousins must be “killed in all cases”, according to the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph. And get this—this guy’s not your average nutjob, either—Munajid used to be a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington D.C. He made the remarks on Arab television network al-Majd TV after he was asked to give Islam’s teaching on mice.

But don’t worry, Mickey won’t be alone. Munajid also put a hit on Jerry from “Tom and Jerry”.

In 2007, the former dean of Islamic law at al-Azhar University in Cairo issued a fatwa that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage between husband and wife. Debate was immediate. Suad Saleh, head of the women’s department of Al-Azhar’s Islamic studies, pleaded for “anything that can bring spouses closer to each other” and Islamic scholar Abdel Muti concurred, saying “Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy.”

Al-Azhar’s fatwa committee chairman Abdullah Megawar backpedaled and said that married couples could see each other naked but should really cover up with a blanket during sex.

According to Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, drinking the urine of Muhammad is deemed a great blessing. . . Failing to pass the laugh test with Muslim scholars, the Mufti later recanted, saying it was only his “personal opinion”.

In May 2007, Ezzat Attiya wondered how unrelated men and women could work together in the same office, when Islam forbids men and women who aren’t married or related to be alone together.

His answer: let her suckle him FIVE TIMES. Yes, that’s right, an adult female breastfeeding an adult male coworker will defuse all sexual tension in the office. See, the female worker will now be the male worker’s foster mother, and they can be alone together anytime.

Attiya’s ruling was intergalactically mocked, and quickly condemned on the homefront as well. He was later suspended from his job, pilloried in Arab newspapers, and issued a hasty retraction saying it was a “bad interpretation of a particular case.”

Salaam Dr Zaid,
I think there is a hadith whereby the prophet (pbuh) made that warning : ” it’ll come a time when muslims scholars will be the ones leading the ummah astray( I am not translating the exact context, but it conveys the same idea).
— But as regarding the Flat Earth subject, I do agree with some christian and Islamic scholars and I’ll back up the assumptions. Viz, no man has ever set foot on the Moon… it’s all FAKE. The so-called pictures of the earth taken on the moon is just a composite image manipulation! WE have to take into consideration the ” Van Allen Radiation Belt” which scientist is still facing the dilemma how to get through. Mars, Venus, Saturne, etc and Stars so-called distant sun are only a machination; there is no such thing. AS Allah mention in the Quran, surah Mulk the lower heaven is adorned with lamps. Mostly it was used as a mode of navigation.
Please ask these Questions:
1. Why does the United NAtion use a flat earth model as their Logo?
2. Why is the USGS ( United States Geological Survey) still use the Flat Earth Map?
3. World Meteorological Organisation still use a Flat Earth Map.
4. Why is SOUTH POLE STILL A ” NO MEN’S LAND”? WATCH THE INTERVIEW OF RICHARD’S BYRD IN 1956 AFTER AN EXPEDITION IN THE SOUTH POLE… IT CONTAINS IMMENSE NATURAL RESOURCES… SO WHY TILL TODAY THE BIG MULTINATIONAL GREEDY CORPORATIONS STILL HAS NOT TRY TO LAY THEIR HAND ON IT?
Copernicus who was first to say earth is a ball was himself a Free-mason! It’s all part of the Godless agenda to deviate mankind.
People are just INDOCTRINATED!
There are a few websites with sold-based proofs that the earth is not a ball, and youtube documentations as well.

Salam Doc
Sigh. I am trying to find fault in the title that you have assigned to this page, but sadly I cannot. Also wanted to let you know I’m really happy with your uploading speed regarding your website. Got a lot to read now:).
Islam is far away from what the above mentioned “leaders” of Islam have mentioned, as properly documented on this page. But there are also still many Muslims who realize that. That this, ISIS, TTP etc is indeed the true innovation, that you need to go back to the Prophet() & not these contemporary clergymen with their edited religious books.
But sadly, the brain washing is working. In Pakistan, I can attest to the fact that women are indeed considered lower than men in the villages due to lack of education. There is a counter to that as well, in the urbanized secular-educated cities of Pakistan. But alas, they would indeed be considered a few. Even in the cities, there are no Islamic scholars dispensing the true “Islamic” wisdom, as manifested by Prophet Muhammad (Peace of Allah on him). But elsewhere, on this God’s gracious earth…there may be hope 🙂

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